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# posted by ethiopundit : 7:19 PM

Saturday, July 1

Ideology - Revolutionary Democracy

  • Politburo Knows Best III - Revolutionary Democracy

  • Revolutionary Democracy Redux

  • Revolutionary Democracy Recycled

  • Revolutionary Democracy Returns

  • Revolutionary Democracy Reloaded

  • Consent?

  • Goodfellas

  • 21 months and counting

  • and now for something completely different

  • Politics is the Continuation of War by Other Means

  • Dear Comrade Leonid ...

  • The Original Gangsta

  • Lipstick on a Pig

  • Luck and the Idea Trap

  • Jamaica & Chou

  • And Now for Something Completely Different

  • On the Origins Of The TPLF

  • The Post-Totalitarian Stress Disorder

  • Revolutionary Spirit Hangover

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:31 PM

    Friday, June 30

    Economy - Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics

  • Zenawinomics

  • Research Confirms Meles Inc. Desperate for MDG Billions

  • The 7% Solution

  • The 7% Maskirovka

  • lies, damn lies & statistics

  • Return of the Living Hype

  • Economic Absurdities

  • On Borrowed Time

  • Malthus, Hobbes and the Red Queen

  • Ethnicity, Poverty and War

  • War Makes Folks Poor

  • 'Zenawinomics' and the Aztec gods

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:32 PM

    Thursday, June 29

    Disinformation - A Bodyguard of Lies

  • The Adventures of Addis Ferengi & the Desperate Dance for Donors

  • A Sign of Desperation

  • Return of the Living Hype

  • Notes on the Information War

  • Soylent Green is People !

  • Caravan Reloaded

  • Caravan Redux

  • The Caravan Passes and the Dog Barks

  • A Bodyguard of Lies

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:32 PM

    Wednesday, June 28

    Tribalism - Divide & Rule

  • Goodfellas

  • In Whose Name?

  • Blood, Oil and Ethnic Rule in Gambella

  • Don't Believe The Hype

  • Ethnicity, Poverty and War

  • On the Origins Of The TPLF

  • War Makes Folks Poor

  • New Jack Country

  • On the Pitfalls of Ethnic Politics

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:33 PM

    Tuesday, June 27

    ‘Election’ & Aftermath

  • Current Situation, Possible Solutions

  • The Adventures of Addis Ferengi & the Desperate Dance for Donors

  • Sympathy for the Prime Minister

  • Letter from Kaliti Jail

  • The Natural Language of Dictatorship

  • The World According to Ordell & Meles

  • Statement by the Crown Council

  • Extras

  • Banana Republic

  • Talking Points

  • Politics is the Continuation of War by Other Means

  • Rumors of War

  • Tag Team

  • A Beginner's Guide to Ethiopian Politics

  • The Historic Elections of May 2005

  • The Tragedy of Low Expectations

  • La Lutta Continua !

  • Scorched Earth

  • Ordinary Mortals

  • Another Red Season Ahead

  • A Bodyguard of Lies

  • Criminal Minded

  • Cadres 'n ze Hood

  • Hatred is the Basis

  • Common Sense

  • We don't need no votes!

  • Revolutionary Measures

  • Revolutionary Democracy in Action

  • Tiger by the Tail

  • just like Rasputin

  • Politburo Knows Best VII - Let A Hundred Flowers Bloom

  • Press Freedom under threat

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:34 PM

    Monday, June 26

    Feudalism & Famine - Land to the Politburo

  • The Greatest Story Ever Mistold

  • Billions of lives improved!

  • The Creation of a Nation of Serfs

  • Marx Reloaded (not Groucho)

  • Project 1061

  • The Tragedy of the Commons

  • let the ferenjis feed 'em ... again

  • On Borrowed Time

  • Revolutionary Feudalism

  • The Wretched of the Earth

  • Defending the Revolution

  • China shows the way

  • Let the Ferenjis Feed 'em

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:35 PM

    Sunday, June 25

    Begging vs. Development - Cargo Cult Economics

  • Cargo Cult Economics

  • Cargo Cult Economics 2 - All About the Benjamins?

  • Cargo Cult Economics 3 - Structural Corruption

  • Cargo Cult Economics 4 - Short Term Memory

  • Cargo Cult Economics 5 - Cheerleaders

  • Cargo Cult Economics 6 - Sachs & Violence

  • Cargo Cult Economics 7 - The 7% Solution

  • The 7% Maskirovka

  • The Adventures of Addis Ferengi & the Desperate Dance for Donors

  • you may not see us because we will die

  • Earth to Bono? ... Come in Bono ... Earth to Bono?

  • Luck and the Idea Trap

  • Cognitive Dissonance

  • Roads to Prosperity

  • Mass Transit System for Central Shoa?

  • Geography Lesson

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:36 PM

    Saturday, June 24

    Information De-Evolution - I.T. Development

  • Information De-Evolution I - back in the day

  • Information De-Evolution II - right now

  • Information De-Evolution III - computers

  • Information De-Evolution IV - internet

  • Information De-Evolution V - Big Brother?

  • Information De-Evolution VI - Red Herrings

  • The Internet Miracle Development Plan

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:37 PM

    Friday, June 23

    Structural Corruption - Cosa Nostra

  • The World Is Yours

  • The World Is Yours II - The Syndicate

  • The World Is Yours III - The Commission

  • The World Is Yours IV - "An Offer They Can't Refuse"

  • The World Is Yours V - Capo di tutti Capi

  • The World Is Yours VI - Our Thing

  • The World Is Yours VII - Wise Guys

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:37 PM

    Thursday, June 22

    The Great Game - Ferenjis

  • How about Chinese?

  • Perfidious Albion

  • Despots and the Terror Excuse

  • Washington's Lethal Delusions of Stability

  • Rumors of War

  • No More Appeasement

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:38 PM

    Wednesday, June 21

    Absolute Power - 15 Years & Counting ...

  • Modus Operandi: Professor Asrat vs Meles Inc.

  • Fourteen Years After Liberation

  • A Beginner's Guide to Ethiopian Politics

  • Another Red Season Ahead

  • Ordinary Mortals

  • but the Constitution says ... oh, nevermind

  • Letter to Tony Blair

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:39 PM

    Tuesday, June 20

    Liberal Democracy? - Politburo Knows Best

  • Politburo Knows Best I -Liberal Democracy

  • Politburo Knows Best II - Human Rights

  • Politburo Knows Best III - Revolutionary Democracy

  • Politburo Knows Best IV - Revolutionary Feudalism

  • Politburo Knows Best V - The Wretched of the Earth

  • Politburo Knows Best VI - Defending the Revolution

  • Politburo Knows Best VII - Let A Hundred Flowers Bloom

  • Politburo Knows Best VIII - Occam & Damocles

  • Politburo Knows Best IX - Dictatorship

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:40 PM

    Monday, June 19

    History

  • Battle of Adwa 110th Anniversary

  • They Had So Much Things To Say

  • The Japanizers

  • Unhealing Wounds

  • Addis Stories

  • The Armenians

  • The Nile is not just a river in Egypt

  • A Warrior Society and its Weapons

  • Aksum doesn't want to wait in vain

  • Axum or Aksum?

  • Gutenberg to Berhanenna Selam

  • Menelik meets Skinner

  • WMD Legacy from Mengistu & Mussolini

  • License Plate History

  • Salt to Thalers to Birr

  • Remembering H.I.M.

  • Ethiopian-Korean Orphans

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:40 PM

    Sunday, June 18

    Aerospace

  • The Rise and Fall of the Ethiopian Air Force

  • Tsehay and a Roundel History

  • Ain't Capitalism Grand?

  • Condors and Eagles from Harlem

  • Why Ethiopian Airlines Works

  • Ethiopian Airlines Works

  • Air Force of 1933

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:41 PM

    Saturday, June 17

    Art & Culture

  • Zerihun Yetmgeta, artist

  • Folk Art from the 1960s

  • Yohannes and Menelik Palaces

  • Images of a Century Ago

  • Nouveau Art

  • Expo 67

  • The Ethiopic Calendar

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:42 PM

    Friday, June 16

    Environment

  • Falling Off the Climate Curve

  • Ecological Footprints

  • Those Tigabugna Greens

  • Genetically Modified Crops

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:44 PM

    Thursday, June 15

    The World According to Us

  • Helter Skelter

  • In the Future Everyone Will Be Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize

  • Too Spicy for Some

  • Eighteen Months and Counting

  • Until Next Year

  • let the poor chimp smoke already

  • AABAMA

  • Rule Britannia

  • Happy Birthday USA

  • one year and counting

  • Geldof vs. Girl Power

  • Lion Mutilates Forty-Two at Spaghetti Harvest

  • Tar, Feathers and Myths

  • 100 Days of Rwanda Project

  • Capitalism & Slavery

  • Remembering M.L.K. Jr

  • Hamsterdam

  • Bush vs Kerry

  • South Korea's Big Stick

  • Cocaine 1.0 - Super Cocaine to Vin Mariani

  • Cocaine 2.0 - Coca Cola to Crack

  • World War IV

  • 21st Century Slavery

  • Canadian Pop Quiz on Darfur

  • The Political Compass

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:45 PM

    Wednesday, June 14

    Doing The Right Thing

  • Institutions and Accountability

  • The Birth of Plenty

  • Capitalism, disrespected

  • Do the Right Thing

  • Ain't Capitalism Grand?

  • Bridges to Prosperity

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 3:46 PM

    Tuesday, May 31

    DEMOCRACY & FREEDOM

    DEMOCRACY & FREEDOM

  • We don't need no votes!
    • Even rigged voting goes wrong so the government changes the subject to law and order.
  • Revolutionary Measures
    • The gathering post 'election' storm.
  • Tiger by the Tail
    • Interview with opposition leader.
  • Revolutionary Democracy in Action
    • The 'election' show doesn't go according to plan.
  • 'election' news - just like Rasputin

  • Politburo Knows Best I -Liberal Democracy
    • The pretense of democracy is based on interest and pressure from the West, particularly the US. The opposition sat out the previous 'elections' because they were faked. This time they are on notice from the community of aid donors to go along with the show or be left to their own devices.
  • Politburo Knows Best II - Human Rights
    • There are no meaningful human rights recognizable to any democratic society that are experienced beyond the immediate eyesight of Western aid donors.
  • Politburo Knows Best III - Revolutionary Democracy
    • The national guiding ideology is still Marxist-Leninist-Maoism - so you can assume there aren't great prospects for freedom and prosperity.
  • Politburo Knows Best IV - Revolutionary Feudalism
    • There are no rights to own private property whose protection is essential to all personal and political rights worldwide throughout history.
  • Politburo Knows Best V - The Wretched of the Earth
    • Ethiopia's system of tribal divide and rule 'bantustans' has more in common with medieval feudalism than anything modern or decent for humans to live under.
  • Politburo Knows Best VI - Defending the Revolution
    • An intense system of of control inherited from the Communist Dergue of Mengistu (known in Cuba as 'Committees to Defend the Revolution') exert absolute government control and fear at the lowest (neighborhood or block) level in unseen rural areas (85% of the people) and urban lives as well.
  • Politburo Knows Best VII - Let A Hundred Flowers Bloom
    • The last few episodes of the tragi-comic "Revolutionary Democratic Election Show' (the ugliest reality show ever staged) are examined in ... episodic depth. The number of viewers, blameless or aware, who seem to accept it all at face value makes for an amazing lesson in living Orwellian production values. Sadly, 70 million Ethiopians can't just change the channel.
  • Politburo Knows Best VIII - Occam and Damocles
    • This one is about the politburo's doomsday option should it be threatened with ever actually losing power. The system is structured so that the in the short term the threat of apocalyptic tribal warfare is always on the horizon without the manipulations of the ruling party. In the long term it will eventually collapse anyway taking millions along with it.
  • Politburo Knows Best IX - Dictatorship
    • A summary of the series and the prospects for actual democracy.

  • Letter to Tony Blair
    • Link to and commentary on a remarkably lucid and cogent analysis of the current regime and the role of the West.
  • Press Freedom under threat
    • Threats to already limited press rights are on the horizon.
  • The long fetasha
    • The long 'search'. A post borrowed from Meskel Square with commentary on the intrusive nature of an undemocratic state.

    The long fetasha

    # posted by ethiopundit : 12:04 PM

    Sunday, May 29

    DEVELOPMENT

    DEVELOPMENT

  • Geography Lesson

  • Bridges to Prosperity

  • Roads to Prosperity

  • Mass Transit System for Central Shoa?

  • Ethiopian Airlines Works

  • Why Ethiopian Airlines Works

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 12:05 PM

    Friday, May 27

    DEVELOPMENT OF I.T.

    DEVELOPMENT OF I.T.

  • Information De-Evolution I - back in the day

  • Information De-Evolution II - right now

  • Information De-Evolution III - computers

  • Information De-Evolution IV - internet

  • Information De-Evolution V - Big Brother?

  • Information De-Evolution VI - Red Herrings

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 12:06 PM

    Wednesday, May 25

    ECONOMICS

    ECONOMICS

  • Do the Right Thing

  • 'Zenawinomics' and the Aztec gods

  • The Birth of Plenty

  • Institutions and Accountability

  • Luck and the Idea Trap

  • Ethnicity, Poverty and War

  • Malthus, Hobbes and the Red Queen

  • On Borrowed Time

  • Capitalism, disrespected

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 12:07 PM

    Monday, May 23

    AID & INVESTMENT

    AID & INVESTMENT

  • let the ferenjis feed 'em ... again

  • Cargo Cult Economics
    • Pretense of freedom and a free market is alive and well.

  • Cargo Cult Economics 2 - All About the Benjamins?
    • Development is about more than cash - it is about institutions.

  • Cargo Cult Economics 3 - Structural Corruption
    • Corrupt party and government owned businesses and monopoly service providers do not provide a setting where you can expect freedom and prosperity.

  • Cognitive Dissonance

  • Ain't Capitalism Grand?

  • Capitalism & Slavery

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 12:08 PM

    Saturday, May 21

    REDS

    REDS

  • Lipstick on a Pig

  • On the Origins Of The TPLF

  • Don't Believe The Hype

  • The Creation of a Nation of Serfs

  • The Post-Totalitarian Stress Disorder

  • Marx Reloaded (not Groucho)

  • The Political Compass

  • Revolutionary Spirit Hangover

  • And Now for Something Completely Different

  • but the Constitution says ... oh, nevermind

  • Jamaica & Chou

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 12:10 PM

    Thursday, May 19

    LAND FROM THE TILLER

    LAND FROM THE TILLER

  • The Tragedy of the Commons

  • 'Zenawinomics' and the Aztec gods

  • Do the Right Thing

  • Billions of Lives Improved

  • Marx Reloaded (not Groucho)

  • Greatest Story Ever Mistold

  • China shows the way

  • The Creation of a Nation of Serfs

  • Let the Ferenjis Feed 'em

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 12:10 PM

    Tuesday, May 17

    TRIBALISM

    TRIBALISM

  • On the Pitfalls of Ethnic Politics

  • New Jack Country

  • War Makes Folks Poor

  • A Warrior Society and its Weapons

  • Ethnicity, Poverty and War

  • On the Origins Of The TPLF

  • Don't Believe The Hype

  • Blood, Oil and Ethnic Rule in Gambella

  • 100 Days of Rwanda Project

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 12:11 PM

    Sunday, May 15

    CULTURE

    CULTURE

  • they got so much things to say

  • The Armenians

  • Expo 67

  • Nouveau Art

  • Images of a Century Ago

  • Yohannes and Menelik Palaces

  • Gutenberg to Berhanenna Selam

  • Zerihun Yetmgeta, artist

  • Folk Art from the 1960s

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 12:11 PM

    Friday, May 13

    ENVIRONMENT

    ENVIRONMENT

  • Those Tigabugna Greens

  • Genetically Modified Crops

  • Ecological Footprints

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 12:12 PM

    Wednesday, May 11

    HISTORY

    HISTORY

  • Remembering H.I.M.

  • Axum or Aksum?

  • Aksum doesn't want to wait in vain

  • Air Force of 1933

  • Condors and Eagles from Harlem

  • Tsehay and a Roundel History

  • The Rise and Fall of the EAF

  • The Nile is not just a river in Egypt

  • Menelik meets Skinner

  • Ethiopian-Korean Orphans

  • Ethiopia's Japanizers

  • Salt to Thalers to Birr

  • The Ethiopic Calendar

  • License Plate History

  • WMD Legacy from Mengistu & Mussolini

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 12:12 PM

    Monday, May 9

    REST OF THE WORLD

    REST OF THE WORLD

  • World War IV

  • Canadian Pop Quiz on Darfur

  • 21st Century Slavery

  • Cocaine 1.0 - Super Cocaine to Vin Mariani

  • Cocaine 2.0 - Coca Cola to Crack

  • Hamsterdam

  • Tar, Feathers and Myths

  • Lion Mutilates Forty-Two at Spaghetti Harvest

  • South Korea's Big Stick

  • Bush vs Kerry

  • Remembering M.L.K. Jr

    • # posted by ethiopundit : 12:13 PM